Solved Problems after merging files during the update from FreeBSD 13 to 14

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I encountered this issue again! The passwd file got corrupted during the update.
Now I have two problems:
1- I cannot set a password for the root user and I am facing the following error:

passwd: pam_chauthtok(): Error in service module

2- I cannot create a regular user.

adduser: Error: There was an error adding user (hbsd)

I have tried doing this even in single user mode, but it doesn't work.
 
That almost sounds like a library issue. How did you (OP) do the update? Did you reboot after the initial kernel upgrade install?
 
VladiBG said:
This doesn't provide me with enough information. What error do you receive?
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"Sorry, because I didn't write the command correctly at first. Now I'm getting a ' real-only file system
' error, even though I'm running it as root. I also created a root user:
`pw useradd -n root -u 0 -g 0 -o`."
 
mer said:
That almost sounds like a library issue. How did you (OP) do the update? Did you reboot after the initial kernel upgrade install?
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freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install

after this everything got ruined. this was my original passwd.master. I didn't change anything!

Code: 
 Attempting to automatically merge changes in files... done.
The following file could not be merged automatically: /etc/master.passwd
Press Enter to edit this file in /usr/bin/vi and resolve the conflicts
manually...
<<<<<<< current version
# $FreeBSD$
#
root:$6$EyyKWIz9axa1uuXC$2lcKB/9on1Jx/hmsPLb1vQ.nDNsNpsKYCmHenSuRnOd1ksn5uAhzoyqSpHexDRxE8xK
VffWYbkbzM75PX/lpP0:0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
=======
root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh
>>>>>>> 14.1-RELEASE
toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:
daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin
operator:*:2:5::0:0:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:*:3:7::0:0:Binaries Commands and Source:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
games:*:7:13::0:0:Games pseudo-user:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
news:*:8:8::0:0:News Subsystem:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
man:*:9:9::0:0:Mister Man Pages:/usr/share/man:/usr/sbin/nologin
sshd:*:22:22::0:0:Secure Shell Daemon:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
smmsp:*:25:25::0:0:Sendmail Submission User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin
mailnull:*:26:26::0:0:Sendmail Default User:/var/spool/mqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin
bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
unbound:*:59:59::0:0:Unbound DNS Resolver:/var/unbound:/usr/sbin/nologin
proxy:*:62:62::0:0:Packet Filter pseudo-user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
_pflogd:*:64:64::0:0:pflogd privsep user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
_dhcp:*:65:65::0:0:dhcp programs:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
uucp:*:66:66::0:0:UUCP pseudo-user:/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/local/libexec/uucp/uucico
pop:*:68:6::0:0:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
auditdistd:*:78:77::0:0:Auditdistd unprivileged user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
www:*:80:80::0:0:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
ntpd:*:123:123::0:0:NTP Daemon:/var/db/ntp:/usr/sbin/nologin
_ypldap:*:160:160::0:0:YP LDAP unprivileged user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
/var/db/freebsd-update/merge/new//etc/master.passwd: unmodified: line 1
 
if you were running 13, shouldn't that have been "freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.2-RELEASE" or something? Then there should have been a freebsd-install that installs the kernel, then reboot, then freebsd-install to update userland?
It sounds to me like an incomplete update
 
VladiBG said:
ok boot into LiveCD and show me the output of
gpart show
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IMG_20250131_225853_898.jpg
 
mer said:
if you were running 13, shouldn't that have been "freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.2-RELEASE" or something? Then there should have been a freebsd-install that installs the kernel, then reboot, then freebsd-install to update userland?
It sounds to me like an incomplete update
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Yes, that was next step but merge problem happend.
 
VladiBG
By the way, I should also mention that I have an external hard drive which is about 1 gigabyte. FreeBSD is installed on this SSD, which is around 500 gigabytes.
 
This is NOT the LiveCD. You are in Single user mode and your filesystem is already mounted in Read-only under /
You can mount it with Read/write permission from single user mode using:

mount -o rw /

Then edit /etc/master.passwd
remove the merge markers and the root user with the empty password hash. (the lines from my previous post)
save the file
and run

pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd

Then you can reboot into multiuser

Note:
By LiveCD i mean to boot using bootable USB flash memory like (FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memstick.img) and instead of install to open LiveCD (now it's called Live system). Anyway the single user mode will also do the work.
 
type
mount -o rw /
to mount it into read-write mode then follow the above post.

btw. why you are upgrading to 14.1 instead of 14.2?
after you fix the master.passwd file you can check the syntax using pwd_mkdb -C master.passwd and then you can change the root password using passwd without getting the error of pam_chauthtok()
 
So
VladiBG said:
This is NOT the LiveCD. You are in Single user mode and your filesystem is already mounted in Read-only under /
You can mount it with Read/write permission from single user mode using:

mount -o rw /

Then edit /etc/master.passwd
remove the merge markers and the empty root user (the lines from my previous post)
save the file
and run

pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd

Then you can reboot into multiuser

Note:
By LiveCD i mean to boot using bootable USB flash memory like (FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memstick.img) and instead of install to open LiveCD (now it's called Live system). Anyway the single user mode will also do the work.
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Sorry, I thought the LiveCD was the same as the single-user one.

Unfortunately, this file has changed... On the other hand, since I only have root user, I can't access my browser to copy and paste the codes.

I just ran this command:
mount -o rw /
But I can't copy and paste the file. Unless I upload the codes to a GitHub account or somewhere and access it by cloning it.
 
VladiBG said:
This is NOT the LiveCD. You are in Single user mode and your filesystem is already mounted in Read-only under /
You can mount it with Read/write permission from single user mode using:

mount -o rw /

Then edit /etc/master.passwd
remove the merge markers and the empty root user (the lines from my previous post)
save the file
and run

pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd

Then you can reboot into multiuser

Note:
By LiveCD i mean to boot using bootable USB flash memory like (FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memstick.img) and instead of install to open LiveCD (now it's called Live system). Anyway the single user mode will also do the work.
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I thought that was what you meant, but I don't have a bootable flash drive.
 
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